When we talk about ‘boys do this’ and ‘girls are like that’ the PC police come in – and they’re right, but there’s some truth behind clichés and stereotypes sometimes… I think I’ve figured it out.
I think of evolution – Darwinism – we are how we are for a survival advantage. So some things exist because it does or at least it did have a good reason to exist. I think a lot of stereotypes or labels we put on genres, cultures, sexes ect are the ‘default’ almost the pre-set of your DNA – but the beauty of the human race is we can go against the default responses, we can choose to be different to what we ‘are’ or our natural responses, we are not fixed – but that means work, and many will take the path of least resistance which is ironically evolutionary to a degree.
Girls are self-conscious about beauty which would have had evolutionary reasons of being able to pick the best mates with the best genes to survive, and the ones who didn’t, their genes may have died off, but not all girls today are self-conscious about beauty, whether by design or by instinct because arguably the evolutionary reason isn’t important for survival anymore. That doesn’t mean the default setting switches off for most though…. Not in our life time’s anyway.
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